Text+Suggestions+for+Year+11+Novels

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 * **Text Title** || **Text Author** || **Comment** ||
 * The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian || Sherman Alexie ||  ||
 * Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time || Mark Haddon ||  ||
 * Coming Back || David Hill || Would suit the theme of 'teenage angst / challenges faced by teenagers' The theme of choices or decisions. ||
 * Ten Things I Hate About Me || Randa Abdel Fattah ||  ||
 * Letters from the Coffin Trenches || Ken Catran ||  ||
 * Montana 1948 || Larry Watson ||  ||
 * The Running Man || Michael Gerard Bauer ||  ||
 * The Raging Quiet || Sherryl Jordan ||  ||
 * Tomorrow when the War Began || John Marsden ||  ||
 * Letters from the Inside || John Marsden ||  ||
 * Out on the Edge || Anna MacKenzie ||  ||
 * A Child Called It || Dave Pelzer || Place this in non-fiction list, I think Night by Elie Weisel is another... - there could be others ||
 * Gangsta Rap || Benjamin Zephania ||  ||
 * Night || Elie Wiesel ||  ||
 * Genesis || Berbard Beckett ||  ||
 * Feed || M.T. Anderson ||  ||
 * Private Peaceful || Michael Morpurgo ||  ||
 * Across the Nightingale Floor || Lian Hearn ||  ||
 * Destroying Avalon || Kate McCaffrey ||  ||
 * The Simple Gift || Stephen Herrick ||  ||
 * Noughts and Crosses || Malorie Blackman ||  ||
 * The Bluest Eye || Toni Morrison ||  ||
 * Swim the Fly || Don Calame || Brilliantly funny... but read first to check suitability. ||
 * Going Bovine ||  || The promo said if you liked //Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy//, you’ll love this book. I do and I didn’t but still, I couldn’t put it down. I should have known from the beginning there was no happy ending: the back cover blurb tells me the main character has the incurable mad cow’s disease. ||
 * Wintergirls || Laurie Halse Anderson || The book which I’m passing around my senior students. I’m giving it to my friends. I’m recommending it to the creative writing class I teach. Why? Firstly, the innovative and quirky writing. ||
 * To Kill A Mockingbird ||  ||   ||
 * Animal Farm ||  ||   ||
 * In the Name of the Father ||  ||   ||
 * Of Mice and Men ||  || On the theme of choices or decisions. George's decision to shoot Lennie if you wanted something tried and true. ||
 * Water in the Blood || Alan Bunn ||  ||
 * Looking for Alibrandi ||  ||   ||
 * Walking Naked ||  ||   ||
 * Gathering Light ||  ||   ||
 * Thousand Splendid Suns ||  ||   ||
 * A Cup of Tea || Mansfield ||  ||
 * My Sister's Keeper ||  ||   ||
 * The Hunger Games || Suzanne Collins || High student interest and wide range of themes to explore. ||
 * Jolt || Bernard Beckett ||  ||
 * Trash || Andy Mulligan || Better suited to Year 9!
 * Trash || Andy Mulligan || Better suited to Year 9!
 * Night || Elie Wiesel || I was surprised at how my Year 11 boys (quite a mixed level class) liked and understood Night by Elie Wiesel. Seem to have done okay, too, with some nice surprise M's and E's. Externals in the lap of the gods, and all that ... grain of salt ... ||
 * The Fall of the House of Usher || Poe || The characters have many of the characteristics of vampires. My Year 12s have liked studying it once we get underway but it does take a little prompting. ||
 * A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove || James Maloney ||  ||
 * Against the Odds || Matt Te Pou ||  ||
 * A Kind of Loving || Stan Barstow ||  ||
 * Animal Farm || George Orwell ||  ||
 * An Ocean in Iowa || Peter Hedges ||  ||
 * Black Like Me || John Howard Griffin ||  ||
 * Blue Feather || Gary Crew ||  ||
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Graphic Novel) ||  ||   ||
 * Children of the Dust || Louise Lawrence ||  ||
 * Finding Grace || Alyssa Brugman ||  ||
 * Fighting Ruben Wolfe || Markus Zusak ||  ||
 * I Coriander || Sally Gardner ||  ||
 * I Heard the Owl Call My Name || Margaret Craven ||  ||
 * Island of Shattered Dreams || Chantel T Spitz ||  ||
 * Kidnap of Jessie Parker || William Taylor ||  ||
 * Kit’s Wilderness || David Almond ||  ||
 * Lester || Bernard Beckett ||  ||
 * Lionheart || Jesse Martin ||  ||
 * Mutuwhenua || Patricia Grace ||  ||
 * Northern Lights || Philip Pullman ||  ||
 * Of Mice and Men || John Steinbeck ||  ||
 * Orchard Street || Maurice Gee ||  ||
 * Out Walked Mel || Paula Boock ||  ||
 * Owl || Joanna Irwin ||  ||
 * Peeling the Onion || Wendy Orr ||  ||
 * Q+A || Vikas Swarup ||  ||
 * Red Cliff || Bernard Beckett ||  ||
 * Red Dog in Bandit Country || Fleur Beale ||  ||
 * Red Necklace || Sally Garnder ||  ||
 * Rocco || Sheryl Jordan ||  ||
 * Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry || Mildred Taylor ||  ||
 * Shadow Waters || Inna Furey ||  ||
 * Sold || Zana Mushen ||  ||
 * State Ward || Alan Duff ||  ||
 * Strange Objects || Gary Crew ||  ||
 * Sumitra’s Story || Rukshana Smith ||  ||
 * Talking in Whispers || James Watson ||  ||
 * Tangerine || Edward Bloor ||  ||
 * Taronga || Victor Kelleher ||  ||
 * The Boy in Striped Pyjamas || John Boyne ||  ||
 * The Chocolate War || Robert Cormier ||  ||
 * The Conch Bearer || Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ||  ||
 * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time || Mark Haddon ||  ||
 * The Fat Man || Maurice Gee ||  ||
 * The Giver || Lois Lowry ||  ||
 * The Highest Tide || Jim Lynch ||  ||
 * The Outlanders || Margaret Beames ||  ||
 * The Pearl || John Steinbeck ||  ||
 * The Running Man || Richard Bachman ||  ||
 * The Ten PM Question || Kate de Goldi ||  ||
 * The Wave || Morton Rhue ||  ||
 * The Whole of the Moon || Duncan Stuart ||  ||
 * This Boy’s Life || Tobias Wolfe ||  ||
 * Thunder Road || Ted Dawe ||  ||
 * Tomorrow When The War Began || John Marsden ||  ||
 * Unwind || Neil Shustiman ||  ||
 * Violence 101 || Denis Wright ||  ||
 * Whale Rider || Witi Ihimaera ||  ||
 * Women for Walking || Witi Ihimaera ||  ||
 * Z For Zachariah || Robert C O’Brien ||  ||